Provides the latest RSS feeds for Asia Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page North Korea Times.com http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/10/id/ed68ecccb9e5520c/ en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:39:41 -0400 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:39:41 -0400 30 MALAYSIANS who voted for Pakatan Rakyat in the last general election must feel disappointed and disgusted at recent events involving the coalition. Coalition adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is charge... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25855631/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:48:03 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25855631/ SEOUL, 3 JULY: In an apparent first, North Korea ~ a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people ~ has aired a beer commercial on state television. The advertisement, which lasted nearly thr... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25853287/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:43:24 -0400 The Statesman http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25853287/ known as Haflong Hindi. At least five of the 10 tribes belong to the broader Kuki family, though under the poisonous impact of ‘homeland’ politics and ‘identity’ mongering, int... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851196/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:02 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851196/ Given the short lead time available for presenting the budget for 2009-10, it is understandable that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee decided to keep the focus on passenger amenities and early impleme... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851195/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:02 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851195/ The mysterious shrinking sheep on the island of St Kilda far off the west coast of Scotland, sounds like a job for Sherlock Holmes. A rare herd of wild Soay sheep on the remote island are refusing to ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851199/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:01 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851199/ One is a member of the Malkangiri District Cricket Association and custodian of its cricket kit. Another, a minor contractor in a public works project. A third runs a tiny shop. They’re all pret... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851197/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:01 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851197/ The pristine present moment is continuously adulterated by this distortion. The mind is therefore never still. The thoughts keep flowing relentlessly, almost involuntarily. And thoughts are entirel... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851194/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:46:43 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25851194/ KUALA LUMPUR: An action plan will be introduced soon in which women will hold at least 30% of the decision-making positions in both the public and private sectors. A draft of the action plan, initiate... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25841501/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:24:13 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25841501/ Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman has a heavy task to bring about change, but he believes his officers will deliver given the chance and funding from the Government. IF DATUK Anifah Aman can find the... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834098/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:34:03 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834098/ MIRI: Beaten up and bruised, two siblings ran away from home clutching only an umbrella and a plastic bag of clothes. The 12-year-old girl and her brother, eight, wandered into an industrial estate pl... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834100/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:34:01 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834100/ DOVER (England): A visibly upset Zahra Masoumah Abdul Halim burst into tears when she was forced to abandon her attempt to conquer the English Channel due to unfavourable tide and wind conditions. The... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834101/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:59 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834101/ The Control Yuan is Taiwan's highest watchdog body. Its members, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Legislative Yuan, may be better known as ombudsmen in the West. Their job it is, accord... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834105/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:37:53 -0400 The China Post http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834105/ SETIU: Wanted! – Kenyir Monsters. And the bounty is RM10,000 for each Arapaima gigas anglers catch. Announcing the angler’s dream offer, Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said Terengganu has l... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834099/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:58 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834099/ KUALA LUMPUR: Three men, who are believed to be attempting to revive the outlawed terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiah (JI), have been arrested under the Internal Security Act. The trio, aged betwee... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834102/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:56 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834102/ Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium roof collapse in Gong Badak here on June 6. Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the government had earlier rescinded the decision to establish its own investigation t... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834103/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:55 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834103/ MARANG: A disabled and elderly man took advantage of a young woman’s pity to outrage her modesty at a textile shop in Bukit Payong here. The 55-year-old man, who had limped into the shop, fondle... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834104/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:54 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25834104/ WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He will tweet from space in Spanish and English. Astronaut Jose Hernandez grew up in... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830667/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:40 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830667/ LOS ANGELES (AP) - The private pathologist who examined David Carradine's body says Thai authorities have determined the actor died of asphyxia and so far, he agrees. Dr. Michael Baden of New York say... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830668/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:38 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830668/ KUALA LUMPUR: Forty-eight new cases of influenza A (H1N1) cases were reported yesterday — 40 imported cases and eight local transmissions. It was the biggest jump in cases in a day after the 38 ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830665/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:43 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830665/ Europe is facing some difficult challenges. We need to talk about these challenges and how to address them. I am firm in the belief that every challenge is an opportunity. And that is what the Swedish... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826445/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:18 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826445/ THE passing of the Personal Data Protection Bill by the Dewan Rakyat, “Private data protected (The Star, July 2) is most welcome. For far too long, members of the public had been suffering in si... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830662/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:44 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830662/ OUR Prime Minister has proven himself to be a man of his words. When he introduced the 1Malaysia concept, it was seen as something so impossible to attain but Datuk Seri Najib does not seem to be a ma... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830660/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:46 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830660/ Sometimes we get frightened to death and paralysed by stories of a pandemic from diseases overseas and ignore the real danger literally lurking and killing in our very own backyards. The A (H1N1) flu,... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830657/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:50 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830657/ ABOUT 15 years ago, my late Uncle Robert from Hong Kong came for a visit and was looking around to settling down in Malaysia, having lived in the then British colony since the 1940s. Uncle Robert was ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830656/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:51 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830656/ Justice has many dimensions: social, economic and political, as also paedo, gerontic and gendered. Gender justice has a global amplitude, and gender-based discrimination is universally poignant. In mo... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826443/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:16 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826443/ I agree with Rozlan Mohd Noor “Better to train local teachers” (The Star, July 1). Like Rozlan, I too would like to contribute and teach English as I have always been passionate about the ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830663/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:43 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830663/ LOS ANGELES (AP) - An executive with a concert promoter says Michael Jackson's memorial service will be Tuesday at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles - if that's what his mother wants. Randy Phill... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830669/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:37 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830669/ WE refer to the letter written by Renu “Have more daycare centres?” (The Star, June 30) and also Victor Chew’s letter “Set up creches to help working mums” (The Star, Jul... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830659/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:48 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830659/ The Economic Survey 2008-09 says India's economy is in revival mode. But we're asked to junk complacency. Fiscal measures taken so far to beat the slowdown could trigger high inflation down the lin... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826435/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:06:16 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826435/ In 2003, George W. Bush announced plans for NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and once again, though, the U.S. faces some serious competition. The same year , Yang Lee Wei became China’s first ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826444/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:18 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826444/ I REFER to the letter “Too much emphasis on paper chase” (The Star, July 1). I do not agree that we have been too engrossed in evaluating the number of A’s our children should get. A... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830661/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:45 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830661/ IT is a known fact that our younger generation is weak in English and I am happy to know our Government is addressing this issue. Sadly though, I have not heard anything about the level of proficiency... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830658/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:47 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830658/ By Karen Armstrong, Grove, $9.75 That the Bible should feature in a series called Books that Changed the World goes without saying. The blurb of this book informs readers that the Bible has been t... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826446/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:29:47 -0400 The Telegraph http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826446/ GEORGE TOWN: Angry residents of Kampung Buah Pala have threatened to send a letter to Unesco to revoke George Town’s World Heritage Site status should the state fail to stop their village from b... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830664/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:42 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830664/ The World Bank said on Wednesday that it committed $58.9 b in fiscal year 2009 to help countries struggling amid the global economic crisis, a 54 per cent increase over the previous fiscal year and a ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826442/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:15 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826442/ VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) - The bright glow at the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been snuffed out by a series of large rock falls within its crater. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the rock ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830666/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:41 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25830666/ The Economic Survey for 2008-09 presented to Parliament ahead of the Union Budget has taken note of the deceleration in the GDP growth to 6.7 per cent last year. Though that is 2.1 percentage points l... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826440/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:20 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826440/ Four years ago, in a newspaper interview that went unnoticed even in West Bengal, ‘Comrade Dhruba’ described plans for a guerrilla campaign that would stretch from Medinipur to Malda. But ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826441/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:18:19 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826441/ I remember standing in long queues at ration shops in Calcutta, Madras and Delhi when i was younger. Lines for food were a part of everyday life. You got substandard rice and dirty, large-grained s... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826437/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:06:13 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826437/ In my early career days, a compact Walkman was a constant companion. It secretly came with me in my jeans or formal dark blue blazer. Besides putting out the latest hits, it did other things. I cou... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826438/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:06:12 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826438/ Over the years i have learned to deeply respect God, both for who He is and what He has done. I have a healthy reverence for His standards, and His right to judge each of us. I admire His attribute... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826439/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:06:11 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25826439/ Mumbai opened its pioneering sea link the day Judge Liberhan closed his inquiry into the Babri masjid's demolition. The Bandra-Worli bridge was opened by Sonia Gandhi and named after Rajiv whose grand... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821328/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:08:02 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821328/ 49, is a leading Dalit writer and commentator. Currently a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, he is working on a history of Dalit literature in Hindi. He speaks to http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821327/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:08:03 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821327/ The vibrating strains of Azaan always have an enchanting effect on me; they resonate in my mind, filling my soul as well as the atmosphere with their sound of solace http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821331/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:07:52 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821331/ Michael Jackson's sudden and shocking death has left millions of people around the world struggling with a sense of bereavement. His dominance of world music in the eighties and nineties meant that... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821335/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:07:46 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821335/ The media and public frenzy after Michael Jackson's death may have been inevitable. But one might have hoped that the media would be able to respect a certain standard of basic decency. Clearly, th... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821336/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:07:45 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821336/ My wife never trusts me with an umbrella. She worries that it will invariably get lost. She insists on sending my son along with an umbrella to accompany me to catch the chartered bus to office and... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821337/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:07:43 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25821337/ PETALING JAYA: Flights between Subang and Singapore have resumed 11 years after the closure of the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SAAS). The inaugural Firefly flight from Singapore landed at the SkyP... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25813089/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:25:05 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25813089/ PUTRAJAYA: Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat will cooperate if he is called up by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to give his statement over the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue. He said... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25804471/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:19:14 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25804471/ BEIJING: A woman in eastern China diagnosed with the influenza A(H1N1) virus has died in the country's first flu-related death, Chinese state media said. The 34-year-old woman was found dead early Wed... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25804472/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:19:13 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25804472/ “Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the e... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25801845/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:01:51 -0400 The China Post http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25801845/ KUALA LUMPUR: Academician Oh Ei Sun, who is also a highly sought international speaker,motivator, consultant and entrepreneur, has been appointed political secretary to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25801844/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:57:44 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25801844/ GEORGE TOWN: Kampung Buah Pala villagers want Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to resign for failing to help them with their land problems. Their representative C. Tharmaraj said they did not want a chief ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798435/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:43 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798435/ LOS OLIVOS, California (AP) - Adoring fans and dozens of news crews poured into this bucolic town near Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on Wednesday expecting to witness the finale to the story of th... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798440/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:35 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798440/ LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge ruled Wednesday that Katherine Jackson will retain control of 2,000 items from Neverland Ranch until another hearing is held Monday, despite claims that the Jackson family h... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798442/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:31 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798442/ The first casualty, it seems, will be the constitution that the elected parliament was to draft, and without which there cannot be a republic. Drafting a constitution is certainly not easy; in India, ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794492/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:45:40 -0400 The Telegraph http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794492/ NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Jackson had a mountain of unreleased recordings in the vault when he died - music that is almost certain to be packaged and repackaged for his fans in the years to come. The ma... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798441/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:35 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798441/ WASHINGTON (AP) - Oshkosh Corp. was the "clear winner" in a multibillion-dollar competition to build new blast resistant, off-road vehicles for ground forces in Afghanistan and any protests of the awa... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798444/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:32 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798444/ MALAYSIA has proposed a third bridge to link Malaysia and Singapore. Before even proposing the third link, we should take a good, hard look at the two links available. The second link is very much und... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798430/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:52 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798430/ The street protests in Tehran fizzled out. Twitter can revert to its earlier plan of shutting down its Iran services and attend to overdue maintenance work. Twitter goes into recess pleased that it em... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794486/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:30 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794486/ Last year, Nick Carr wrote a forceful article for the Atlantic magazine, arguing that Google was making us stupid (http://bit.ly/google32). It’s not just Google, of course, but the whole chaotic... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794488/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:29 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794488/ A RESOUNDING Yes! I believe fellow Malaysians too will support the proposal for the posthumous award of Tunship for Onn Jaafar (The Star, June 30). It may be overdue but certainly not too late to hono... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798431/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:49 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798431/ THE long jail sentence as well as hefty fine imposed by the Session Court on a former MPAJ enforcement chief should be a strong reminder to our civil servants not to indulge in corrupt practices as th... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798432/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:48 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798432/ BEFORE the influx of maids from overseas, parents sent their children to child-minders. However, when maids became easily available and could do housework as well, some mothers decided to kill two bir... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798433/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:47 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798433/ KUALA LUMPUR: Motorists are taking to the newly- introduced RON 95 petrol. Petronas Dagangan Berhad senior general manager (retail business division) Mohd Fadzlan Abdul Samad said early sales at Petro... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798436/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:41 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798436/ KUALA LUMPUR: Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing and two former Transport Ministers will be called before the Public Accounts Committee as part of investigations into the Port Klang... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798438/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:38 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798438/ KUALA LUMPUR: Police have been taking action against e-gambling and have raided 2,900 premises from January to May, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He said those involved in e-... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798445/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:29 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798445/ TAMPIN: A 26-year-old woman who had an argument with her husband thought the best way out was to take her own life as well as those of their three young children. The mother and her two older sons, ag... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798434/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:46 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798434/ SAO PAULO (AP) - Sao Paulo state officials have launched what they say is Latin America's first passenger bus with an electric engine powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Gov. Jose Serra says the bus will ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798437/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:37 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798437/ The cost of goods and services continue to creep upwards, affecting all Malaysians, with those in the lower income bracket bearing the brunt. TWO years ago, they were the happiest group of people in t... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798429/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:57 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25798429/ It was the evening of Saturday June 27, and I felt the prodromal symptoms of an incipient viral upper respiratory infection (“the common cold”) coming on. By Sunday, the infection was full... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794489/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:29 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794489/ So Dick Cheney was right. In the end, the Iraqi people did respond to American soldiers with flowers. The only trouble was, it was their shipping out, not their digging in, that the Iraqi people celeb... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794487/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:29 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794487/ It probably seemed a good idea at the time. But Russia’s attempt to create a joint gas venture with Nigeria could become one of the classic branding disasters — after the new company was n... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794490/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:29 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794490/ Singapore on Wednesday confirmed 82 new cases of Influenza A(H1N1), bringing the total number of such cases to 783 in the country. According to a statement issued by Singapore’s Ministry of Heal... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794491/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:34:28 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794491/ LONDON, 1 JULY: Vegetarians are less likely than meat eaters to develop some cancers, a major study has found. The study involving 61,566 people found that vegetarians developed fewer cancers of the ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794493/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:54:47 -0400 The Statesman http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25794493/ HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's idea of doing away with the Class X Board exams is a sweet nothing. It's music to the ears and it doesn't amount to much. He wants to ease the burden on children to score hi... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25790492/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:53:22 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25790492/ A friend once told me that he never could resolve the conflict of destiny versus free will as propounded in Hindu Philosophy. I thought it was pretty simple. http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25790493/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:52:55 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25790493/ KUALA LUMPUR: As of June 28, Inland Revenue Board has refunded RM3.1bil to 323,517 taxpayers, says board CEO Datuk Hasmah Abdullah. Those entitled to refunds, but have yet to receive their cheques, wo... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25775673/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:57:27 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25775673/ AS US military forces trundled through Baghdad with their worldly goods, Iraqis rejoiced by singing and dancing in the streets. This was not the popular welcome for the arrival of US forces in April 2... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25769702/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:11:19 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25769702/ twchoi@thestar.com.my PARIS: France has offered to help Malaysia build its first nuclear power plant as an alternative source of energy supply, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Muh... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25769703/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:11:06 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25769703/ In June 17, “reload” was probably the most frequently pressed button in the world's Web browsers as hundreds of thousands of people waited anxiously for the promised release of Apple Inc.'s iPhone... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766840/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:49:42 -0400 The China Post http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766840/ MY family and I had to wait for almost six hours when we took my sister to register at the campus of a university in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. We expected nothing more than one to two hours to do the ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766833/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:25 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766833/ The doctrine of separation of powers has a mixed record, and a richness and a complexity that defies easy description. THE doctrine of separation of powers has been in the news repeatedly in the last ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766834/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:27 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766834/ BUILDING an alternative bus terminal for south-bound interstate coaches in Bandar Tasik Selatan in Kuala Lumpur is commendable but joining the exits into the existing MRR2 is bad planning. Peak hour t... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766832/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:24 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766832/ I AM glad to note that there are moves to introduce a new category of Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships next year based purely on merit regardless of race. Although I welcome the move which... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766835/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:21 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766835/ JOHOR BARU: A Universiti Teknologi Malaysia student was found dead in her campus dormitory after she had given birth to a baby boy. The baby, whose umbilical cord was still attached to his mother, was... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766837/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:18 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766837/ KUALA LUMPUR: The bumiputra 30% equity objective will now be a macro target as the Government seeks to turn Malaysia into a more competitive economy, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The Prime Ministe... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766836/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:15 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766836/ ALL major Chinese dailies reported the death of an 11-year-old boy who choked on a lychee seed. Tang Jia Yu, who had taken the fruit bought by his uncle on Sunday afternoon, had tried to cough out the... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766838/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:13 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766838/ PETALING JAYA: As long as Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) is under investigation, there should not be any transactions of any kind taking place. Former Transparency International Malaysia president Tan S... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766839/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:46:10 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25766839/ The ouster by the military of President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, taken unceremoniously from his official residence in Tegucigalpa, and flown, still in his pajamas, to San José, Costa Rica, is a... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758228/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:42 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758228/ How do you respond to criticism that your own response to Shopian was incendiary? For example, you claimed that sindoor had been found in the hair of the victims, thereby making what happened in Shopi... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758232/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:41 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758232/ The European Commission on Tuesday called on all European Union member states to install laws to protect their citizens from exposure to tobacco smoke by 2012. The EU member states are asked to adopt ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758231/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:41 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758231/ It looked like the first drop of rain in the desert of drugs policy. Last week Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the U.N. office on drugs and crime, said what millions of liberal-minded p... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758229/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:42 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758229/ This takes us to the touchy topic of salaries and research support. The old system of a flat scale, where every professor was supported in the same way across all the over-300 universities, was once a... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758233/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:18:48 -0400 The Telegraph http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758233/ Are the winds of change that seemed to be blowing through the corridors of the central government on the issue of ending legal discrimination against gay sex petering out? Hope that the infamous Secti... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758226/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:43 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758226/ Despite India’s strong economic growth in recent years, longstanding inadequacies persist. One such challenging area is poor rural road connectivity, with over 40 per cent of India’s rural... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758227/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:42 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758227/ In time to come we are certain to hear more (and murkier) theories about the circumstances of Michael Jackson’s death but the current favourite is that it was the upcoming London marathon, rathe... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758230/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:41 -0400 The Hindu http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758230/ assisted his father when he made Meenaxi. It's never easy to live in the shadows of a genius. Owais has gradually come to terms with his space in life. He has just wrapped up work on his first indep... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758223/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:34 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758223/ Here, it is believed, the distance between heaven and earth shrinks, the veil between the two worlds becomes so thin, one is actually able to perceive something of heaven itself, receiving a glimps... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758225/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:32 -0400 Times of India http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25758225/ KLANG: A Maths whizz, who is a foreign senior lecturer, at the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya claimed trial at the Sessions court here for taking a RM800 bribe from a student in return for better ... http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25743601/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:45:39 -0400 The Star http://story.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ed68ecccb9e5520c/id/25743601/